re: #112 goddamnedfrank

If more US households had guns then a greater percentage of children had access to them in the past. If the theory that these mass / school shootings are a relatively new phenomena because of the availability of guns in society, the ubiquity of guns in homes when the boomers were growing up should have been reflected in the earlier bumps in the homicide rate. Anyway, most criminologists I’ve read have tended to explain that second bump in the homicide rate by the disproportionate number of young males dumped on society by the baby boom, the first bump is usually attributed to Prohibition.

I didn’t think the theory was school shootings were new because of the availability of guns. I didn’t really think school shootings were new, I thought they’d just gotten deadlier. I could be totally wrong on that, of course.

I don’t think we should construct gun laws focused on stopping mass shootings, but one that will help in a broader way.